Author Instance

Authors that can be associated with an Object usually for use with ExternalObjects to record paper authors, etc.

Writable Fields:

name (optional): Full name or organisation name of the Author. Note that at least one of name or identifier must be specified.

identifier (optional): Full URL of identifier (e.g. ORCiD or ROR ID) of the Author

uuid (optional): UUID of the Author. If not specified a UUID is generated automatically.

Read-only Fields:

url: Reference to the instance of the Author, final integer is the Author id

last_updated: Datetime that this record was last updated

updated_by: Reference to the user that updated this record

GET /api/author/1/?format=api

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "url": "https://data.fairdatapipeline.org/api/author/1/?format=api",
    "uuid": "5eb3d1ff-78fe-a318-fdf7-909533bff9a5",
    "last_updated": "2026-10-02T11:04:02.907732Z",
    "name": "Ryan J Field",
    "identifier": "https://github.com/RyanJField",
    "updated_by": "https://data.fairdatapipeline.org/api/users/2/?format=api"
}